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Giga

The UN Initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice.

Founded: 2019 by Chris Fabia, Co-Founder of UNICEF Innovation

  • Program Area

    Education, Poverty Alleviation & Economic Development
  • Location of Impact

    Global
  • Headquarters Location

    Geneva, Switzerland
  • Product Platforms

    Open Source
  • Budget

    $1,000,000 +

Half of the world’s population has no regular access to the Internet. Millions of children leave school without any digital skills, making it much more difficult for them to thrive and contribute to local and global economies. This has created a digital divide between those who are connected and those who are not, a divide that has become even wider during the Covid-19 pandemic.

Giga focuses on connecting schools so that children and young people have access to information, opportunity, and choice. It also uses schools as anchor points for their surrounding communities: if you connect the school, you can also connect local businesses and services. This creates opportunities for service providers to generate revenue from paying users, making connectivity more sustainable.